Professional qualification: Receptionist in hotels and open-air hotels

To bring together the skills and knowledge required to receive and welcome customers:
- welcoming customers to the reception service (in French and English)
- advising customers on how best to organise their stay
- promoting, communicating and selling the establishment's services
- processing booking requests for all hotel services (in French and English)
- managing and implementing customer arrival and departure operations
- closing the reception service's activity
- transmitting and updating information relating to the reception service's activity

The training is organised into several skill modules, enabling step-by-step progression. It alternates between theoretical input, practical exercises and assessment sessions in order to promote practical and progressive learning.

BC01 – Managing operations relating to guests’ stays

• Welcoming, informing and advising guests
• Processing booking requests for hotel services
• Carrying out guest check-in, monitoring and check-out procedures

BC02 -  Carrying out procedures relating to the monitoring of the tourist establishment’s operations

• Monitoring day-to-day operations
• Contributing to business development
• Contributing to online reputation management

Throughout the course, students receive personalised support with regular monitoring by the teaching team and progress reviews to tailor the learning to each individual’s needs.

A work placement also enables learners to develop professional skills in a real-world setting.

Skills are assessed progressively through role-plays, practical exercises, professional projects and assessments carried out throughout the course.

Our teaching methodology prioritises a practical, work-focused approach: case studies, role-plays, practical scenarios and collaborative activities enable learning in conditions that closely resemble the real-world workplace.

• Professional qualification from the Ministry of Labour Level 4

Find out more about this qualification (RNCP38870, exact wording of the diploma, name of the certifier, registration date of the qualification) by clicking here.

• All audiences

Be motivated by this job, have a good image of it, be aware of and accept the conditions under which it is carried out and the responsibilities involved: staggered working hours, pressure management, periods of overactivity, prolonged standing, etc.)

Have a fairly good level of written and spoken English, a good level of written and spoken French, have a perfect command of basic mathematical operations (arithmetic, proportionality, ratios, simple equations).
If possible, experience of working in a hotel or customer reception area

12 people

• Fully classroom-based training

• Personalised course
• Group lessons

• Educational flat
• Equipped technical platforms
• Room equipped with networked computer workstations
• Unmarked room with video projector

Positioning upstream of entry to training.

Interviews, remediation with the educational referent and/or company referent during training.

For beneficiaries with disabilities: possible adaptation of training and certification arrangements, support by the TH referent.

Education Nationale certified teachers, Bac +3 trainers with significant experience in adult education, professional lecturers.

For this professional qualification, ongoing assessments (ECF) are organised throughout the course to evaluate the candidate’s progress and their mastery of professional skills.

The final examination takes place before a two-member examination panel comprising professionals from the sector. It comprises a professional role-play and an interview based on the professional portfolio (DP), which highlights the experience and skills developed by the candidate.

The final examination takes place within two months of the end of the training course.

The examination panel validates all or part of the Professional Qualification. In the event of partial validation, the professional competence certificates (CCP) (or competence modules) obtained are valid for a period of five years.

The candidate may subsequently complete the missing modules to obtain the Professional Qualification in its entirety.

Register for the collective information day via your France Travail account or with your adviser and present yourself with the liaison form from the prescriber (Mission locale, France Travail...) for jobseekers.

Interview by appointment for work-linked applicants.

Training is available between 15 and 45 days before the start of the course, depending on the funding body. Please contact us.

Getting into work as a hotel receptionist

Access for people with disabilities